Maps. With technology today one can look at maps at any time.What do you use this capability to do? Do you use it to find your way to an event, a new city, a restaurant, to visit a new friend in a new place? We use maps to help us find our way and avoid getting lost. What form of a map do you use for your business?This is actually a more critical kind of map. Developing a plan of action is essentially building yourself a road map for what you want to achieve. You create benchmarks, and rest points, and evaluate how you are doing so you can look at alternative approaches and methods. As we approach the end of the year it is important to spend some time and develop your revised map for 2013 and beyond. Setting your goals in this fashion allows you to achieve more and to avoid getting lost!“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” — Ralph Waldo EmersonFor more information, visit the SBA website at www.smallbusinessadvisors.com, call 295-7832 or e-mail dhhills@ibl.bm. You can view past boosters at www.smallbusinessadvisors.com/boosters/indexhtm